Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

Ursula K. Le Guin

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Twyla Tharp

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Twyla Tharp

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

Walt Disney

nothing is impossible

Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Saul Bellow

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Rose Wilder Lane

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rohit Sharma

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

Robert Young

You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.

Robert Powell

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Sarah Vowell

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Sarah McLachlan

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me...

Sarah McLachlan

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah Miles

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

Zhuangzi

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

Zhuangzi

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Zhuangzi

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Youssou N'Dour

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

William H. Seward

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

William Hazlitt

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

William Hazlitt

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

William Hazlitt

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Wendell Willkie

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

Walter Rauschenbusch

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

Walter Rauschenbusch

The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.

W. Somerset Maugham

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Yakov Smirnoff

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.